Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:13:08 +0400 From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: dg@root.com, enkhyl@hayseed.net, mishania@demos.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current panics.. Message-ID: <19981007001308.11085@demos.su> In-Reply-To: <199810061957.MAA18722@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 07:57:15PM %2B0000 References: <199810052332.QAA16333@implode.root.com> <199810061957.MAA18722@usr08.primenet.com>
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Talking about being AIX-ish - the precedent is there - FDSETSIZE, isn' it? On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 07:57:15PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: # > >This same kind of situation can occur with a network-intensive app running # > >under Solaris, too. From my own experience with tuning OSs (specifically # > >Solaris 2.x), I'd agree with David's assessment. Not having delved that # > >far into the details of FreeBSD "leaks" as he probably has, I can't say # > >with certainty that there are none, but I'm inclined to believe him. :-) # > # > I should say here that I'm not saying that there aren't any "leak" bugs, # > either, just that I have looked into this several time and found nothing but # > mis-tuned systems. I'm also a bit incredulous since wcarchive does far more # > TCP/IP than most other machines in the world, has months of uptime and no # > detectable buffer leaks. I want to be clear about this: If there was a bug # > that I could identify, I'd fix it immediately. "Show me the mon^H^H^Hbug!" # # I kind of have a question in this area... # # If it's possible to tune the system's static resource allocations, # then why not make the allocations dynamic so that they are self # tuning, and dampen the hysteresis loop so that you don't get wild # swings? # # # It's always seemed odd to me that there would ever be an "out of # mbufs!" message when there was, in fact, room available to allocate # more mbufs... # # I know, I know; too AIX-like for most people... # # # Terry Lambert # terry@lambert.org # --- # Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present # or previous employers. -- -mishania To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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